GT Alpina by Reto Moser proudly calls itself a workhorse serif, but delights in playing with the very meaning of that concept. It reaches into the grab bag of typographic history to resurrect shapes some may mistakenly see as too expressive. Over the course of eight years Reto meticulously worked on melding these distinct shapes with a pragmatic execution. The result is a comprehensive family of seventy fonts covering a wide range of width, weight, contrast, and proportionality.
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This typeface showcase exclusively uses the new variable fonts format for all of its features and animations.
Thin
Bold
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Pumping & Posing☱
The design of the roman styles is first and foremost concerned with the reading experience. To that aim, the characters’ widths are carefully balanced. Unique and unexpected design details add personality to that solid rhythm and allow the typeface to express its outspoken personality.
Condensed
Extended
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☲Flexing & Stretching
The Standard width subfamily is the main summit of GT Alpina, flanked by the Condensed and Extended widths. The three subfamilies are both functional and conceptual siblings to grow the typeface’s territory.
Normal
Fine
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Business and Pleasure ☰
The three widths are accompanied by a higher-contrast version each, the Fine subfamilies, which play with the contrast between the thick and thin parts of each letter. The result of this exploration emphasizes the typeface’s personality and lends an elegant air to its design.
Bland
GT Alpina
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Zany 🕹 Details
While built to be a workhorse serif, the typeface isn’t trading personality for efficiency. The key for any typeface to shine lies in all the little details making up its personality. To illustrate these details, we’ve created a very bland example serif shown above and below, deprived from all of GT Alpina’s characteristic elements. The slight shift of the contrast axis—the angled axis of thick and thin parts in letters like the o—adds vitality to the text flow. Characters such as Q and Z invert the contrast for an even more dramatic effect.
Bland
GT Alpina
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Have Some 🖤 Balls
GT Alpina’s distinct ball terminals create visual accents sprinkled across the typeface. If it lacked them, the texture of the typeface would even out even more—but also lead to a stale look. As the ball terminals’ size remains the same throughout all the weights, this feature becomes particularly prominent in the Light weight. Some historical references like the carved ink traps in the S add sharpness. Others, such as the overhanging terminals on a and f, help connecting neighbouring letters to each other and create more compact word shapes.
✆ Panoramic View & Binoculars ☝
GT Alpina Fine Condensed Thin
✿ Vertical Peaks of the Swiss Alps ✿
✯ Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn ✯
✺ 82 Alpine summits of 13,123 ft ✺
GT Alpina Condensed Light
Lake Geneva 🌛
GT Alpina Fine Condensed Regular
The Alps cover 65% of Switzerland’s total
41,285 Square Kilometres 15,940 SQ
34 are within 20 kilometres of the border
GT Alpina Condensed Medium
🎤Pump It🔝
GT Alpina Condensed Bold
🂡 🃑 Jass is a trick taking, Ace-Ten card game 🂱 🃁
⚀⚁⚂ Popular in the Alemannic area of Europe ⚃⚄⚅
♥ The most popular Jass is Schieber ♣
♠ It’s considered Switzerland’s national card game ♦
GT Alpina Standard Thin
🚲RACE🏁
GT Alpina Fine Standard Light
Mount Pilatus 2093
⇗Rigibahn 50km/h△
GT Alpina Fine Standard Regular
↕Size ↔Width ↯ZigZag ↩Return ↬Circle ⇄Back & Forth ⇵Up+Down ↲Left ↳Right 🔄Twirl ⇈Ahead ↦Forward ☑Checked ✄Cut ✩Featured ❔Q&A 📎Attached
GT Alpina Standard Medium
🕠 Good ✨morning 👋 my ❤
Rise & 🌞 it’s time for ☕
GT Alpina Standard Bold
Slowcore
🤙Lifestyle
GT Alpina Fine Extended Thin
❆ Mont Blanc highest of the Alps ❆
❅ Weisshorn ↥4,506 m ↕14,783 ft ❅
❄ Piz Bernina the Rhaetian peak ❄
GT Alpina Extended Light
Glacier
GT Alpina Extended Regular
🖕 this 💩 I’m 👋
Get 💵 or ✞ tryin
👀 you @ the 🎉 ❕
GT Alpina Extended Medium
Mountain
🌐FLIGHT✈
GT Alpina Fine Extended Medium
➺ The 1st typewriters were
introduced in 1874 & became
common in the mid-1880s 🔍
GT Alpina Typewriter Thin
Style
GT Alpina Typewriter Light Italic
Notable ⌨ manufacturers
Remington & Sons 1816–1896
OLIVETTI BASED IN⭒ITALY⭒
GT Alpina Typewriter Regular
Electric
Typeball
GT Alpina Typewriter Medium
Competetive Sports
☞Alpine Climbing☝
Reach the Summit✔
GT Alpina Typewriter Bold